Architecture Quotes

And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

If I have a style, I am not aware of it.

Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.

You might say that when you step inside, you're entering a honorific space, but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

Less is more.

Architecture aims at Eternity.

I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.

We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.

But the building's identity resided in the ornament.

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines.

It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?

In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.

If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.

We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements.

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy.

My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.